Pierced ceramic basket, by Guillaume Delvigne and Ionna Vautrin
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How cool are these ceramic baskets! I wonder if you could do a similar thing with regular weaved baskets painted white?
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This looks like quite an interesting and different sort of exhibition. Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, amassed an amazing art collection which he displayed proudly in his country house, Houghton Hall in Norfolk in the first half of the 18th century. Unfortunately, Sir Robert’s grandson ran up huge debts and flogged the lot to Catherine the Great of Russia, where the collection formed the nucleus of the Hermitage collection. The sale caused a huge controversy in Britain, as even then the collection was regarded as of national importance. (Catherine the Great threw in a portrait of herself as part of the deal). To mark the 250th anniversary of Catherine’s accession to the throne, and to celebrate Anglo-Russian cultural relations, 70 of the paintings (including works by Poussin, Rembrandt and Van Dyck) are returning to Houghton Hall for this summer only. This is the first time they have left Russia since they originally left Houghton.
The British summer seems to have stalled again (at least in London), so anyone requiring a strong dose of joyous colour should head to Gallery 8, which is showing for the next week the intense Scottish landscapes of John Lowrie Morrison: Jolomo.
John Lowrie Morrison has painted the west coast of Scotland since the early 1960’s. He paints the light of the west - the light that bathes the Inner & Outer Hebrides.
He uses strong colour to express that light and sees his paintings – not in the traditional chiaroscuro of light and dark - but in darkness versus colour, which is what his painting is about: an allegorical description of the human spirit.
An arresting image to celebrate the joys of Spring, as we head into a (possibly, hopefully!) sunny Bank holiday weekend.
The above watercolour was from an exhibition in 2012 organised by British artist Sarah Lucas, of art by Offenders, Secure Patients and Detainees. London: Spring Colours by Pierce Brunt (Highly Commended Award for Watercolour), HMP Full Sutton. Image courtesy of Koestler Trust.
The Wellcome Collection’s Spring 2013 exhibition brings together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK. The 46 artists represented in the show are residents and day attendees at social welfare institutions across Japan. The wonderfully diverse collection comprises ceramics, textiles, paintings, sculpture and drawings.
Visionary art, naive art, primitive art, folk art – outsider art can be all of these. And the ‘outsider’ tag reflects its audience as well as its practitioners: you don’t need any theoretical knowledge of art to find it engaging.
Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan
Wellcome Collection 28 March - 30 June 2013
We like illustrator Sarah Stovalosky.
After having graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration, she has kept herself busy by drawing birds, knitting, traveling, and petting the occasional cat.
What do these photos all have in common?
They are all pencil drawings. Kelvin Okafor is a supremely talented British pencil artist whose recreations of celebrity photos defy belief. Okafor found escapism in drawing rather than the typical social life enjoyed by most of his friends, honing his skills in on his own through his teens and early twenties. Now 27, his work is garnering international attention with a recent exhibition of his work at London’s Science Museum.
Nice to see some ‘old school’ drawing skill still alive in the world of youtube and, er, endless blogs!
Shintaro Ohata’s work has a clever 3D and 2D amalgamation, using both painting and sculpture to create his unique works of art. His scenes are of everyday life, however his expressions of light make them look as though they are movie sets. The polystyrene collaged sculptures are perfectly in tune with their background, they must be wonderful to see in the flesh!
Don’t believe everything you see. It is often said that to appreciate an artwork you need to see it in the flesh as a photograph rarely does it justice. This is particularly true for these artworks by spanish artist Romulo Celdran, who takes everyday items and then recreates them at large scale. See more here.
He calls this project Zoom and Macro, and the concept is to “give the object new dimensions, strengthening its presence and inviting us to explore it, discovering hidden spaces and unnoticed nooks”
We love them, although we would be happy for someone else to light a match that size.
Here in our Studio we’re really looking forward to “Pick me up” exhibition, starting next thursday (18th April) until 28th April in Somerset house, London. Last year’s event was really inspiring and gave us the opportunity to buy screen printed art direct from the artists.
Well worth a visit if you’re in the area!
